Social Technologies for Informaticians and Researchers

Social Technologies (Web 2.0) for

Informatics & Research

Patricia F. Anderson <[email protected]>

UM Health Sciences Libraries November 28, 2007© 2007 Regents of the

University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Outline• Background: Social tech and scholarly publication• What are social technologies?• Professional social communities• Informatics in general social tech tools• Informatics & research 2.0

– Open science• Social tech for research• Crowdsourcing• Potential concerns• Case study

Social Tech and Scholarly Publication

• University of Washington Libraries: Scientific Publication Cycle <http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg>


• Publishing without the academic infrastructure?

• Problematic


• Publication 200 years ago– Soapbox model

• Say what you want to say• If you have the money to print it

• Copyright 200 years ago– Nurtured the creative process– Facilitated connection between the creator and the

consumer


• Scholarly publication 50 years ago– Peer review– Publisher driven

• Copyright 50 years ago– Purpose of copyright inverted

• ‘Feeds’ the publisher and middle man• Creative process driven by tenure and grants


• Via the web and social tech, we are returning to our beginnings

Graphic: Interarchive


• Interarchive.org


• What will drive scholarly publication?• Recognition metrics

What Social Technologies Are All About

• Collaboration & community– Who are your people?– Who do you want to tell what?– Who do you want information from?

Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0

• Slide from his talk, one week ago, in Europe

• How did I get it?• Social tech --

Slideshare• http://

www.slideshare.net/adunne/what-is-web-20-157107/

Social Technologies Are …

• “Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.”– Johnson, Steven. “Emerging Technology:

Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life.” Discover Magazine 10.24.2005


• Web 2.0• Social tech• Social media• Social computing• Social networking• Relationship media


• Example Types:– Blogs– Citation Sharing– Collaboratories– Email Groups– Forums– Social Bookmarking– Wikis

• Example Tools:– Del.icio.us– Facebook– Flickr– Second Life– Slideshare– Twitter – YouTube

Professional Organizations as Communities

• Example: IADMFR


• Member forums, newsletters, meetings, etc.


• Email lists for professional community


• Discussion topics and image sharing

Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Sharing

• Social bookmarking


• Microblogging: Twitter


• Image sharing: Flickr


• Video sharing: Youtube

Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Communities

• Facebook: Group: Health Informatics


• Facebook: Group: Informatics Forum


• Informatics groups in Second Life

Informatics in General Social Tech Tools: Collaboration

• Nanotechnology Island in Second Life


• Wikipedia: Dental informatics


• Wikipedia: Dental informatics (stub)


• How did I build this graphic?

• With an online mindmapping tool

• It also makes flowcharts• I can share the picture with

my team• I can allow them to make

suggestions and edit it.

Informatics & Research 2.0

• Social bookmarking: 2collab, from Elsevier


• Social bookmarking– CiteULike


• Social bookmarking– Connotea, from Nature


• Social bookmarking: Digg

Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs

• Method: http://science.blogdig.net/• MORE:

http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/staying-current-with-science-blogs-wikis/

Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs Plus

• SEED: http://seedmagazine.com

Informatics & Research 2.0: Blogs Plus

• Nature: Nascent: Web 2.0 in Science

Informatics & Research 2.0: Blog Communities

• My Biotech Life: The DNA Network hits 25

Informatics & Research 2.0: Wikis

• Fred Hutchinson Computational Proteomics Laboratory (CPL) Proteomics Repository: https://proteomics.fhcrc.org/CPAS/Project/home/home.view


• Open Wetware: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page


• Proteome Commons: http://www.proteomecommons.org/archive.jsp

Informatics & Research

2.0: Research

Collaboration

Informatics & Research 2.0: Communities

• Social networking: nanohub


• Social networking: Fq(x) community


• Social networking: Science Commons

About Open and Closed Science

TraditionalLab Notebook(unpublished)

TraditionalJournal Article

Open Access Journal Article

Open Notebook Science (full transparency)

CLOSED

OPEN

Slide from Jean-Claude Bradley, Open Notebook Science & Malaria, September 6, 2007

About Open and Closed Science

• Gunther Eysenbach: Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biology

Open Science - Proposal

• Science in the open: E-Science for Open Science

Open Science

• An Experiment in Open Notebook Science - Sortase Mediated Protein-DNA Ligation

Open Science

• Useful Chemistry (blog): Definitions in Open Science SFLO Transcript

Open Science

• Open Notebook projects, from the Useful Chem Wiki

Social Tech for Research

• Research happens– Pubmed article list for Web 2.0

• MN Boulos on Second Life in medical and health education

• IS Yang on Infectious Disease Biomarker Database with Web 2.0 elements

Social Tech for Research• Research happens

– Pubmed: (myspace OR facebook OR del.icio.us OR youtube OR flickr OR twitter OR "social technology" OR "second life" OR "web 2.0") = 72 results

– Google Scholar: (myspace OR facebook OR del.icio.us OR youtube OR flickr OR twitter OR "social technology" OR "second life" OR "web 2.0") (~health OR healthcare OR ehealth OR ~medicine OR ~surgery OR ~clinical OR treatment OR epidemiology OR prognosis OR ~infectious OR therapy OR psychology OR psychiatry OR physician OR ~informatics OR nursing OR "evidence based") = 31,500 results

– <http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/websearch+health2.0>


• Ethnicity’s Role in Social Networking


• Envisioning feelings on the web


• Virtual epidemics in Lancet


• Virtual epidemiology


• Presenccia: Research encompassing sensory enhancement, neuroscience, cerebral-computer interfaces and applications


• Presence and Interaction in Mixed-Reality Environment (10th, 2007)– “Current virtual and augmented realtiy environments try to provide

the best realism, while it is simply taken for granted that this leads to the best user=experience. Practice shows that this is not true: users do not easily feel fully engaged in high-tech VR worlds. On the other hand they can feel extremely present in simpler environments, like when chatting on line or when reading a book. The feeling of being there, in other words, is the result of a complex interation of many technological, contextual, biological, cognitive and personal factors, among others.”


• NewScientistTech: Anti-social bot invades Second Lifers’ personal space

Crowdsourcing: What is it?

• Getting people to volunteer information or resources that you need for your research, with no cost or harm to them


• Using data for research that other people create and make available freely


• Crowdsourcing: Tracking the rise of the amateur

Crowdsourcing: Examples: General

• Audobon Christmas Bird Count


• eBird

Crowdsourcing: Everyone: General

• ClimatePrediction.net


• The Future Place Blog: Red Lake Crowdsourcing Case Study

• UnlockTheValue.com


• NASA: Clickworkers


• OpenStreetMap


• USGS Did You Feel It

Crowdsourcing: Examples: Corporate

• Amazon Mechanical Turk


• IBM: Many Eyes


• innocentive

Crowdsourcing: Health

• Using Facebook to trace public health concerns

• What else could you track this way?


• Geni: Create your family tree• Could you use this to track the historical

incidence and genetics of health conditions in the general population?


• Houston Chronical Special Report: In Harm’s Way

• Tracking toxic chemicals in the water supply by having residents test their own water


• World Community Grid: Help Conquer Cancer– Like SETI and Stardust @ Home, uses

computing cycles


• MedHelp.org• What questions do people ask?

Questioning behavior studies.


• Organized Wisdom• What resources are considered quality

by general public?


• Who is Sick?– Condition tracking– Epidemiology and public health


• Who is Sick?– Condition tracking– Epidemiology and public health


• SLHealthy wiki

Crowdsourcing: Peers

• Chemmunity– “an experiment to see whether the internet

and Web 2.0 technologies can facilitate a global collaboration to solve interesting and novel chemistry questions”

Crowdsourcing: Peers

• Bioforge

Convergence in Social Tech

• Medicine and Web 2.0 @ SciFoo live on (Second Life)– Blogs– Podcasts– Social e-communities– Second Life– Wikis

Potential Problems

• eHealthRisk Wiki

Potential Problems• The Register:

Scientists shun Web 2.0– Why?– Generational

dynamics?– Comfort with

adopting tech innovations?

– Lack of perceived relevance?

– ?????

Potential Problems

• Adoption• Skepticism• Integrity• Authority• Version control• Hackers• Engagement• Durability

Solutions? More about Social Tech and Publication Models

• arXiv.org - the killer app for science social technologies


• An American Physics Student in England: If Digg (or Reddit) ran the arXiv






• An American Physics Student in England: If Amazon ran the arXiv


• An American Physics Student in England: If Amazon ran the arXiv


• An American Physics Student in England: If Google ran the arXiv

More

• Links to these resources and more:– http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/science2.0/

• More podcasts:– http://www.dentalinformatics.com– http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/– http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/podcasts/

• More slide presentations:– http://www.slideshare.net/

umhealthscienceslibraries/slideshows/

Questions?

– Contact: Patricia Anderson at [email protected]